Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-20
DEATH OF CHARLES LUX.
Short Sketch of his Early
Career.

| .SGOVt SActCn OF MS EaChy
Career.
Charles Lux, the millionaire land.own
er and cattle dealer, died at yesterday
morning, at his residence, on the north
west corner of jackson and Cough
streets, in this city. He died of typhoid
pneumonia, on the nineteenth day oi
his illness. His last hours were attend
ed with little pain.
Mr.. Ink had been sick all this winter,
suffering from cold and asthma. He
had not entirely recovered from the
effects of a severe fall from wagon on
his private estate at Baden, San Meteo
county, more than q year ago, and,
while attending personally to his out
door business on one of his ranches in
the recent snowstorm, he contracted a
bad cold. He was man of very large
build and had attained the age of "a
years.
Mr.. Lux was born in Alsace. He EN-.
igrated to New York city in boyhood.
There he worked for o retail butcher in
Fulton Market for some years as q
delivery boy. He came to San Fran
cisco in 1857 and opened retail butcher
shop at 93l Washington street. In this
business he was very prosperous, and in
1862 he formed the partnership which
was destined to continue auspiciously
through the many long years to the
close of his life. This was with Henry
Miller, under the firm name of Miller &
Lux, as cattle dealers and wholesale
butchers.
Shortly after this firm wss established
it commenced the fair.sighted policy of
investing in public lands, or buying out
early locators. 1t maintained this policy
down to very recent dates, until now its
landed possessions cover an area Of 70O,.
600 acres. These lie in the counties of
San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara,
Monterey, San Benito, Merced, Stanis-
laus, Fresno, Tulare, Kern and San
Luis Obispo, in California; in the coun.
ties of Washoe and Humboldt, in Ne.
vada, and also in Oregon. The cattle
herds of the firm, scattered in many
parts of this vast territory, number be.
tween 10000 and $4,000 head. The
firm has an aggregate annual tax of $50:
600, and the total value of its land,
improvements and cattle is estimated to
be mot close estimate) $4,000, 900.
Over 700 miles of private telegraph lines
connect their ranches.
Mr.. Lux was makinGiis homo at Ba.
den, San Mateo county, when he en-
tered into business with Mr.. Miller. He
then fixed his residence at No. 45 South
Park, this city, where he maintained it
for fifteen years. He then returned to
Baden and lived there some two years.
Thereafter his home was on the large
and fine premises where he died, as be.
fore stated. The deceased leaves wild.
ow, but never had any children. His
immediate relatives consist of brother
at San Jose and brother and sister at
Hatten, in Alsace. He made his will a
few years ago.
The names of Mr.. Lux and his part.
ner, Mr.. Miller, will forever be asso-
ciated in our legal annals with what has
thus far probably been the most import
ant litigation in the history of this State.
This was the great water rights suit of
Miller Lux vs.. Haggin & Carr, in
which our Supreme Court in recent elab.
crate decisions upheld the English doc
trine of riparian rights as established in
California. Miller & Lux were the pre-.
vailing parties.-[Bulletin, March Is.